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SEX PISTOLS, THE - Two Limited-edition Photographs by Adrian BootA set of two limited edition black-and-white photographs of The Sex Pistols taken by British music photographer Adrian Boot. These images were taken during a photo session at Dryden Chambers near Oxford Street in 1977 when the Sex Pistols were at the height of their fame. The first print shows all four members (Steve Jones, Paul Cook, Sid Vicious and Johnny Rotten), and the second print features Vicious and Rotten. Both are hand signed in pencil by Boot and labelled "Production Proof, 1/25". Each print is presented in a cardboard frame with a Studio Limited Editions certificate of authenticity on the back and comes in sealed packaging. Dimensions (each print displayed): 50 cm x 40 cm (19 3/4" x 15 3/4")Estimate: £500 - 1,000 M Bidding for this lot will end on Friday, November 10th. The auction will begin at 3:00PM BST and lots are sold sequentially via live auctioneer; tune in to the live streaming broadcast on auction day to follow the pace. Note other lots in the auction may close on Thursday, November 9th, Saturday, November 11th or Sunday, November 12th.

STAR WARS: VARIOUS PRODUCTIONS - Anthony Daniels Collection: Screening, Reception, Premiere Party and Exhibition InvitationsA collection of Star Wars screening, reception, premiere and exhibition invitations. The lot includes a reception invitation; a royal enclosure "Guest of Anthony Daniels" pass; two premiere party invitations; and a ticket for a 1997 screening of Star Wars: A New Hope Special Edition. Accompanying these is a special preview screening ticket for Star Wars: Attack of the Clones; an invitation to "The Magic of Myth" exhibition at the Powerhouse Museum; and invitations to the reception and screening of Rogue One: A Star Wars Story. Both Rogue One invitations are autographed by Daniels in gold pen. Dimensions (Special Edition Ticket): 21 cm x 10 cm (8 1/4" x 4") Additional Provenance: This lot comes from the personal collection of actor Anthony Daniels. Daniels plays loyal protocol droid C-3PO in the Star Wars saga. He first appeared in the role in 1977 and is the only actor to appear in all Star Wars feature films to date.Estimate: £150 - 300 M View all lots from STAR WARS: VARIOUS PRODUCTIONSView all lots from STAR WARS - ALL ITEMSBidding for this lot will end on Friday, November 10th. The auction will begin at 3:00PM BST and lots are sold sequentially via live auctioneer; tune in to the live streaming broadcast on auction day to follow the pace. Note other lots in the auction may close on Thursday, November 9th, Saturday, November 11th or Sunday, November 12th.

ANTHONY DANIELS - Anthony Daniels Collection: ''I Am C-3PO - The Inside Story'' Autographed Hardback Collector's Edition and Audiobook CDI Am C-3PO - The Inside Story hardback Collector's Edition and audiobook CD autographed by Anthony Daniels. This hardback book comes in a card sleeve, sealed in plastic, and is individually autographed and numbered by Daniels. The audiobook CD case is autographed on the cover and contains nine CDs. Dimensions (hardback in card sleeve): 25 cm x 16.5 cm x 3.5 cm (9 3/4" x 6 1/2" x 1 1/2") Additional Provenance: This lot comes from the personal collection of actor Anthony Daniels. Daniels plays loyal protocol droid C-3PO in the Star Wars saga. He first appeared in the role in 1977 and is the only actor to appear in all Star Wars feature films to date.Estimate: £300 - 600 M View all lots from ANTHONY DANIELSView all lots from STAR WARS - ALL ITEMSBidding for this lot will end on Friday, November 10th. The auction will begin at 3:00PM BST and lots are sold sequentially via live auctioneer; tune in to the live streaming broadcast on auction day to follow the pace. Note other lots in the auction may close on Thursday, November 9th, Saturday, November 11th or Sunday, November 12th.

STAR WARS: VARIOUS PRODUCTIONS - Anthony Daniels Collection: Anthony Daniels Autographed Early C-3PO Concept PageAn Anthony Daniels autographed early C-3PO concept page from Stan Stice and John Scoleri's limited edition The Art of Ralph McQuarrie book. This printed page features an early concept sketch of C-3PO's head, which is the design McQuarrie used in his final production painting of Droids in the Desert (the concept artwork which convinced Daniels to take the role). It includes Daniels' autograph hand-signed in black pen below the illustration. Dimenisons: 30.5 cm x 45.5 cm (12" x 18")Additional Provenance: This lot comes from the personal collection of actor Anthony Daniels. Daniels plays loyal protocol droid C-3PO in the Star Wars saga. He first appeared in the role in 1977 and is the only actor to appear in all Star Wars feature films to date.Estimate: £100 - 200 M View all lots from STAR WARS: VARIOUS PRODUCTIONSView all lots from STAR WARS - ALL ITEMSBidding for this lot will end on Friday, November 10th. The auction will begin at 3:00PM BST and lots are sold sequentially via live auctioneer; tune in to the live streaming broadcast on auction day to follow the pace. Note other lots in the auction may close on Thursday, November 9th, Saturday, November 11th or Sunday, November 12th.

STAR WARS: THE COMPLETE SAGA - Anthony Daniels Collection: Assorted Modern Trading Cards Autographed by Anthony DanielsAssorted modern trading cards from the promotion of various Star Wars films. This lot includes 18 cards autographed by Anthony Daniels: three from the "Star Wars Trilogy" series; two from the "Attack of the Clones" series; six from the "Star Wars Galaxy" series (including two duplicates); five from the "Star Wars Special Edition" series; and one custom-made "501st Legion" card with Anthony Daniels as an "Honorary Member". The cards have some wear around the edges. Dimensions (each): 6.5 cm x 9 cm (2 1/2" x 3 1/2")Additional Provenance: This lot comes from the personal collection of actor Anthony Daniels. Daniels plays loyal protocol droid C-3PO in the Star Wars saga. He first appeared in the role in 1977 and is the only actor to appear in all Star Wars feature films to date.Estimate: £300 - 600 M View all lots from STAR WARS: THE COMPLETE SAGAView all lots from STAR WARS - ALL ITEMSBidding for this lot will end on Friday, November 10th. The auction will begin at 3:00PM BST and lots are sold sequentially via live auctioneer; tune in to the live streaming broadcast on auction day to follow the pace. Note other lots in the auction may close on Thursday, November 9th, Saturday, November 11th or Sunday, November 12th.

STAR WARS: VARIOUS PRODUCTIONS - Anthony Daniels Collection: Collection of Anthony Daniels-autographed Star Wars MediaA collection of Anthony Daniels-autographed Star Wars media from throughout the franchise. Included in this lot is a nine-disc Star Wars - The Complete Saga Blu-ray boxset; a The Force Awakens Blue-ray; a The Last Jedi Blue-ray; a The Rise of Skywalker DVD; a Star Wars - The Clone Wars seasons 1-5 collector's edition Blue-ray boxset; a Solo A Star Wars Story Blu-ray; an R2-D2 Beneath The Dome DVD; a six-part Return of the Jedi: The Original Radio Drama CD boxset; a Christmas in the Stars CD; a Making Magic CD; and A New Hope: Orginial Motion Picture Soundtrack CD. Each case has been autographed by Anthony Daniels. Dimensions (largest): 20 cm x 15 cm x 7 cm (8" x 6" x 2 3/4")Additional Provenance: This lot comes from the personal collection of actor Anthony Daniels. Daniels plays loyal protocol droid C-3PO in the Star Wars saga. He first appeared in the role in 1977 and is the only actor to appear in all Star Wars feature films to date.Estimate: £600 - 1,200 M View all lots from STAR WARS: VARIOUS PRODUCTIONSView all lots from STAR WARS - ALL ITEMSBidding for this lot will end on Friday, November 10th. The auction will begin at 3:00PM BST and lots are sold sequentially via live auctioneer; tune in to the live streaming broadcast on auction day to follow the pace. Note other lots in the auction may close on Thursday, November 9th, Saturday, November 11th or Sunday, November 12th.

STAR WARS DROIDS: THE KALARBA ADVENTURES (1995) - Anthony Daniels Collection: Four Proof Copies of Ralph McQuarrie's The Droids in the DesertFour proof copies of Ralph McQuarrie's The Droids in the Desert, reprinted as a tipped-in page for the Dark Horse limited edition hardcover comic book Star Wars Droids: The Kalarba Adventures. McQuarrie's artwork, which depicts early versions of C-3PO (Anthony Daniels) and R2-D2 (Kenny Baker) in a desert landscape, was originally created in 1976 to help sell the look of Lucas' Star Wars to studio executives at 20th Century Fox. This image inspired Daniels to take the role of C-3PO. The artwork was reproduced as tipped-in pages for the limited edition hardcover Dark Horse comic book in 1995. Each of these four proof copies features the reference line "SW DROIDS LIMITED EDITION SIGNED TIP IN PLATE" printed along its right edge, with Daniels' name printed at the bottom and a space for the prints to be hand-numbered out of 1000. Dimensions (each): 28 cm x 38 cm (11" x 15")Additional Provenance: This lot comes from the personal collection of actor Anthony Daniels. Daniels plays loyal protocol droid C-3PO in the Star Wars saga. He first appeared in the role in 1977 and is the only actor to appear in all Star Wars feature films to date.Estimate: £300 - 600 M View all lots from STAR WARS DROIDS: THE KALARBA ADVENTURES (1995)View all lots from STAR WARS - ALL ITEMSBidding for this lot will end on Friday, November 10th. The auction will begin at 3:00PM BST and lots are sold sequentially via live auctioneer; tune in to the live streaming broadcast on auction day to follow the pace. Note other lots in the auction may close on Thursday, November 9th, Saturday, November 11th or Sunday, November 12th.

STAR WARS: ORIGINAL TRILOGY (1977 - 1983) - Anthony Daniels Collection: Sealed The Story of Star Wars and Christmas in the Stars Vinyl AlbumsSealed The Story of Star Wars and Christmas in the Stars vinyl albums. Released in 1977, The Story of Star Wars has Roscoe Lee Brown narrating the events of A New Hope, with dialogue from the film, and its original score performed by the London Symphony Orchestra. This special edition album is numbered "569" and includes a 16-page souvenir photo book. Produced by Domenico "Meco" Monardo, Christmas in the Stars was released in 1980 and notably features Anthony Daniels as C-3PO, with Jon Bon Jovi performing lead vocals on the track "R2-D2 We Wish You a Merry Christmas", credited under his legal name "John Bongiovi". The top right corner of the Christmas album sleeve has been cut off. Dimensions (each): 31.5 cm x 31.5 cm (12 1/2" x 12 1/2")Additional Provenance: This lot comes from the personal collection of actor Anthony Daniels. Daniels plays loyal protocol droid, C-3PO in the Star Wars saga. He first appeared in the role in 1977 and is the only actor to appear in all Star Wars feature films to dateEstimate: £400 - 800 M View all lots from STAR WARS: ORIGINAL TRILOGY (1977-1983)View all lots from STAR WARS - ALL ITEMSBidding for this lot will end on Friday, November 10th. The auction will begin at 3:00PM BST and lots are sold sequentially via live auctioneer; tune in to the live streaming broadcast on auction day to follow the pace. Note other lots in the auction may close on Thursday, November 9th, Saturday, November 11th or Sunday, November 12th.

STAR WARS: VARIOUS PRODUCTIONS - Anthony Daniels Collection: Limited Edition C-3PO Seiko Watch with Autographed BoxA limited edition C-3PO Seiko watch with a box autographed by Anthony Daniels.One of only 600 made, this mechanical watch has a black metal strap and a black watch face with golden detailing, and its underside features an image of C-3PO in black. It comes in a black box, the inside of which is autographed in silver ink by Daniels. Also included in the box is an instruction booklet, with instructions in both Japanese and English, and space pieces for the strap. Dimensions (box): 13 cm x 16 cm x 10 cm (5" x 6 1/4" x 4")Contains mechanical components; see mechanical notice in the Buyer's Guide.Additional Provenance: This lot comes from the personal collection of actor Anthony Daniels. Daniels plays loyal protocol droid C-3PO in the Star Wars saga. He first appeared in the role in 1977 and is the only actor to appear in all Star Wars feature films to date.Estimate: £1,000 - 2,000 M View all lots from STAR WARS: VARIOUS PRODUCTIONSView all lots from STAR WARS - ALL ITEMSBidding for this lot will end on Friday, November 10th. The auction will begin at 3:00PM BST and lots are sold sequentially via live auctioneer; tune in to the live streaming broadcast on auction day to follow the pace. Note other lots in the auction may close on Thursday, November 9th, Saturday, November 11th or Sunday, November 12th.

STAR WARS: VARIOUS PRODUCTIONS - Anthony Daniels Collection: Three Pairs of Collector's Edition Prototype C-3PO Sunglasses Autographed by Anthony DanielsThree pairs of Anthony Daniels-autographed collector's edition prototype C-3PO sunglasses produced to celebrate the 40th anniversary of George Lucas' Star Wars.Made by Parasite Eyewear and licenced by Opal, each pair features slightly different metal frames and tinted lenses, and two are engraved "#997/999". All three are presented in a large black collector's box embossed with a golden C-3PO face, and each pair is held in a sunglasses case with two fabric pouches (one for the frame and one for the detachable grill component). Accompanying these is a typed note from Disney France reading, "Happy to offer you this very first prototype". The three cases and collectors box all feature Anthony Daniels' autograph in gold pen. Dimensions (collector's box): 33 cm x 23.5 cm x 8.5 cm (13" x 9 1/4" x 3 1/4"); (each case): 15.5 cm x 7.5 cm x 5.5 cm (6 1/4" x 3" x 2 1/4")Sold without copyright; see copyright notice in the Buyer's Guide.Additional Provenance: This lot comes from the personal collection of actor Anthony Daniels. Daniels plays loyal protocol droid C-3PO in the Star Wars saga. He first appeared in the role in 1977 and is the only actor to appear in all Star Wars feature films to date.Estimate: £1,000 - 2,000 M View all lots from STAR WARS: VARIOUS PRODUCTIONSView all lots from STAR WARS - ALL ITEMSBidding for this lot will end on Friday, November 10th. The auction will begin at 3:00PM BST and lots are sold sequentially via live auctioneer; tune in to the live streaming broadcast on auction day to follow the pace. Note other lots in the auction may close on Thursday, November 9th, Saturday, November 11th or Sunday, November 12th.

Cicero (Marcus Tullius) Cicero cu[m] comme[n]to, commentary by Josse Badius, Nicolas Chappusius, and Francesco Maturanzio, Gothic letter, title printed in red and black and woodcut printer's device (repeated on final verso) within woodcut historiated border, a few woodcut vignettes, woodcut decorative initials, first few ff. rubricated, wormed, most pronounced at beginning and end, occasional spotting or light staining, lightly browned, endpapers wormed and detached, contemporary blind-stamped vellum over wooden boards, spine in compartments and with later ms. title label, remains of metal clasps, wormed, particularly wooden board of lower cover with some loss to it and vellum, some staining, soiled, [Not in Adams], 4to, [Lyon], [Jacques Myt for Simon Vincent], [29 April, 1514].⁂ A rare edition, with only a handful of copies recorded by USTC, and this copy seemingly the last at auction. Provenance: Sotheby's, 22nd April, 1971, lot 254, bought by Bernard Quaritch for a client for £19, with their commissions report loosely inserted.

NO RESERVE Churchill (Sir Winston Spencer) A History of the English Speaking Peoples, 4 vol., first editions, original cloth, dust-jackets, nicks and tears to edges, light rubbing, 1956; The World Crisis 1911-1918, 2 vol., new edition, bookplate to browned endpapers, original blind-stamped cloth, 1938; and 16 others, Churchill, v.s. (22)

NO RESERVE Betjeman (John) Summoned By Bells, first edition, jacket with light marking to upper panels, spine sunned, 1960 § Thomas (Dylan) Under Milk Wood, chipping to jacket spine ends, 1954 § Ziegler (Philip) The Black Death, 1969, first editions, original boards or cloth, dust-jackets; and 28 others, modern literature, 8vo (31)

Marx (Karl) Kapital [Das Kapital], 3 vol. first Slovenian edition, translated provided by the Marx-Engels-Lenin Institute of Moscow, original cloth lettered in gilt, dust-jackets, light creasing and nicks to edges, corners repaired with tape, 8vo, Ljublijana, 1961.

Latham (Robert, editor) Catalogue of the Pepys Library at Magdalene College Cambridge, 18 vol., first edition, some illustrations, plain and colour, some vol. with bookplate to pastedowns, original cloth, gilt, certain vol. with dust-jackets or glassine wrappers, all as issued, jacket spines lightly sunned, faint foxing to top edge, 4to, D.S. Brewer and others, 1978-2018⁂ Scarce found in this complete run with the two later supplementary series.

Prayer Book.- La Liturgie Angloise ou Le Livre des Prières Publiques, first French edition, title within woodcut border incorporating royal arms, allegorical figures of Faith and Humility, and symbols of the Evangelists, historiated woodcut and ornamental initials, lacking final blank, bookplate, 19th century inscription to pastedown, 19th century morocco-backed boards, joints cracked, lower cover working loose, rubbed, [STC 16431], 8vo, for J. Bill, 1616.⁂ A scarce first French translation of the Book of Common Prayer, prepared for the inhabitants of the Channel Islands by order of James I.

Craig (Edward Gordon) The Art of the Theatre, first English edition, signed presentation copy from the author inscribed on front free endpaper, Edinburgh & London, T.N.Foulis, 1905; De Kunst van het Theater, first Dutch edition, inscribed by the author on front free endpaper, Amsterdam, 1906; Souvenir. Acis and Galatea, Masque of Love, as Produced at the Great Queen Street Theatre, March 10th, 1902, by Martin Shaw and Gordon Craig, damage to one plate from adhesion, 1902; A Living Theatre: The Gordon Craig School, The Arena Goldoni, The Mask, first edition, Florence, 1913 § City of Manchester Art Gallery. Catalogue of an Exhibition of Drawings and Models for Hamlet, Macbeth, The Vikings...by Edward Gordon Craig, Manchester, 1912, all with plates and illustrations, some colour, some folding, some tipped in, original printed pictorial wrappers, most uncut, rubbed, some frayed at edges, the first with spine worn and defective; and a small quantity of others, Craig, several duplicates and ephemera including early exhibition catalogues, Mask announcements etc., v.s. (c.35)⁂ The third item is the illustrated programme for one of Craig's first theatrical productions.

NO RESERVE Crawhall (Joseph) Old Aunt Elspa's ABC, first edition, hand-coloured woodcut illustrations by the author throughout, 3pp. advertisements at end, some leaves loose, original wrappers with hand-coloured woodcut vignettes, postage stamp lacking from easel on verso, rubbed and frayed at edges, [1884]; The Gloamin' buchte, hand-coloured woodcut illustrations, original hand-coloured wrappers, browned and frayed at edges, 1883 § Gorcock (Jeffrey), "Joseph Crawhall". Grouse Shooting Made Quite Easy, one of 300 facsimile reprints, illustrations, original cloth-backed pictorial boards, gilt, glacine wrapper, Shap, David A.H.Grayling, 1998; and a small group of Crawhall illustrations and an 1880 Newcastle sale catalogue including part of Crawhall's library, 4to & 8vo (a bundle)⁂ "Aunt Elspa" was a family term of endearment for Crawhall's daughter Elspeth. Crawhall himself is pictured at letter R for Rumpus, Rage, Racket & Riot, being chased by a termagant queen.

NO RESERVE Hoffmeister (Adolf) Podoby, first edition, half-title, title-page and list of plates, 35 lithographed plates only (of 36, lacking plate Tichá práce), most in colours, ?lacking limitation leaf, some very slight toning to margins, loose as issued, remains of original wrappers, broken with loss, original slip-case with printed red label to upper cover, some wear to extremities, folio, Prague, S.V.U. Mánes, 1934; sold as a collection of plates, not subject to return.⁂ Rare. Includes the plate "Popravil Karel Radek Jamesa Joycea?" [Karel Radek executed James Joyce].

NO RESERVE [Mele (Giovanni Battista, composer)] Il Vello d'Oro Conquistato, first edition, disbound, printer's device to upper wrapper, lightly soiled, 4to, Madrid, stamperia di Lorenzo Francesco Mojados, 1748.⁂ Translates as: The Golden Fleece Conquered. Dramatic composition to be performed in the Royal Teatro del Buon-Ritiro celebrating the happy Christmas day of his Catholic majesty the king our lord d. Ferdinand by command of her Catholic Majesty Queen.

Lang (Andrew, editor) The Blue Fairy Book, first edition, hinge cracked, light spotting, 1889; The Brown Fairy Book, first edition, 1904; The Green Fairy Book, second edition, 1893; The Orange Fairy Book, new impression, 1914, bookplates, ink ownership inscriptions, original pictorial cloth, some gilt, lightly faded and rubbed; and another edited by Land, 8vo (5)

Louÿs (Pierre) The Songs of Bilitis, limited edition signed by the artist, illustrations by Willy Pogany, all hand-coloured, original buckram, uncut, New York, 1926 § Prévost (Abbé) Manon Lescaut, limited edition, printed in orange & black, colour plates by Alastair, tissue guards, light spotting at beginning and end, slight damage to limitation leaf, modern cloth, uncut, with old cloth boards or original binding (stained), London & New York, 1928 § Hogg (James) The Songs of the Ettrick Shepherd, tipped-in colour title and plates by Jessie M.King, original cloth-backed boards, gilt, with illustration mounted on upper cover, uncut, rubbed, Edinburgh, T.N.Foulis, [c.1916] § La Fontaine (Jean de) Contes et Nouvelles, 3 vol., letter L of 26 copies, from an edition limited to 1000, plates by Pierre Lelong, original printed wrappers, uncut & unopened, original cloth folders and slip-cases, Grenoble, 1965, 8vo & 4to (6)⁂ The charming mildly erotic illustrations in the first have been delicately coloured by hand.

Nicholson (William) Clever Bill, first edition, 21 colour illustrations by the author, light spotting and foxing to pictorial endpapers, original pictorial boards, edges a little rubbed but overall an excellent example, oblong 8vo, 1926.⁂ Nicholson's scarcest picture book, rare in this condition.

NO RESERVE Potter (Beatrix) The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin, first edition, third printing with "Author of the Tale of Peter Rabbit" on title, colour frontispiece, plain title vignette and 26 colour plates, pictorial endpapers, some finger-soiling, original grey boards with pictorial onlay, very lightly rubbed but an excellent copy overall, [Linder p.423; Quinby 5], 16mo, 1903.

Printing.- Savage (William) A Dictionary of the Art of Printing, first edition, presentation copy from the author to A.W.English with accompanying A.L.s. tipped in, illustrations, original cloth, uncut & unopened, spine faded, 1841 § Warren (Arthur) The Charles Whittinghams Printers, one of 385 copies, Ruari McLean's copy with his pencil signature and annotations, plates and illustrations, bookplate of Percival & Elisabeth Merritt, original half roan, uncut, New York, Grolier Club, 1896 § Aeschylus. Prometheus Desmotes [Prometheus Bound], presentation copy from Victor Scholderer (the type designer) inscribed at head of front free endpaper with printed note on the "New Hellenic" Greek type tipped in, Greek text, title in red & black, A.L.s. from Walter Shewring (Eric Gill's literary executor) on 'Pigotts' notepaper loosely inserted, original cloth, 1930, all a little rubbed, spines faded; and a small quantity of printing ephemera including a flyer for the comedy A Cure for the Heart Ache at the Theatre Royal Harrogate 1819, pictorial labels for Cadbury's chocolate boxes and a glass slide depicting Arctic explorers for Cadbury's Cocoa, v.s. (sm.qty)

NO RESERVE Rackham (Arthur).- Stephens (James) Irish Fairy Tales, first trade edition, half-title, 16 colour plates and black and white illustrations by Arthur Rackham, captioned tissue-guards, contemporary ink gift inscription to front endpaper, one tissue-guard a little creased, a few plates and tissue-guards with very faint toning or damp-staining to head, else a clean copy, modern cloth, spine gilt, upper cover with inlaid portion of original upper cover, matching slip-case, 4to, 1920.

Robinson (William Heath).- Kipling (Rudyard) A Song of the English, first trade edition, bookplate, lightly offset to endpapers, 1909 § Rabelais (Francis) The Works, 2 vol., 1904 § Shakespeare (William) Twelfth Night or What You Will, first trade edition, bookplate, ink ownership name to endpapers, 1908, illustrations or tipped-in plates by Heath Robinson, original pictorial or decorative cloth, lightly rubbed, 4to (4)

V[ickers] (V[incent] C[artwright]) The Google Book, second edition (first trade edition), 25 coloured plates by Vickers, ink ownership inscription to front pastedown, some light marginal soiling or creasing, a couple of plates with small adhesions, one plate torn at inner margin and becoming loose, original buckram-backed boards, duplicate of one of the plates mounted on upper cover, rubbed, 4to, The Medici Society, 1931.⁂ Originally published in 1913 in a limited edition of 100 copies.

Gregynog.- Dowd (Anthony) & James Brockman. The Special Bindings of Gwasg Gregynog: An Illustrated Catalogue...1977-2002, number 2 of 215 copies, title in blue and black, original blue morocco, device in gilt to upper cover, slip-case, 2004 § Esslemont (David) & Glyn Tegai Hughes. Gwasg Gregynog: A Descriptive Catalogue of Printing at Gregynog 1970-1990, one of 20 copies sold as unbound sheets, from an edition limited to 900, bound in tan calf, by Anthony Dowd, upper cover with panel ruled in gilt, green morocco labels to spine, marbled endpapers, 1990 § De Zilverdistel Rare Books. The Miss Margaret Sidney Davies Complete Collection of Special Gregynog Bindings, limited edition, errata slip loosely inserted, original cloth, dust-jacket, Antwerp, 1995 § Harrop (Dorothy) A History of the Gregynog Press, limited edition, original cloth, Pinner, 1980, plates and illustrations, some colour, a few folding, some tipped in, the first two with prospectuses loosely inserted, the first two Newtown, Gwasg Gregynog; and 5 others, Gregynog, catalogues etc., v.s. (9)

Longus. Daphnis and Chloe, colour illustrations by Marc Chagall, New York, 1977 § Theocritus, Bion & Moschus. The Idyls, translated by Andrew Lang, 2 vol., number 326 of 500 copies, tipped in colour plates by Sir William Russell Flint, captioned tissue guards, original cloth-backed boards, uncut, a little spotted and soiled, 1922 § When Grandmamma Was Young, signed and inscribed "Owen Rutter from an inexperienced publisher - Moira Gibbings 1932" on front free endpaper, linocuts by William McCance, original cloth-backed boards, rubbed, Four Elms Press, 1929 § Gill (Eric) Drawings from Life, first edition, light spotting, Hague & Gill, 1940 § Lancaster (Osbert) Classical Landscape with Figures, first edition, 1947, plates and illustrations, some colour, the first and last original cloth with dust-jackets, the first also with slip-case, the last two a little rubbed; and 7 others, illustrated, v.s. (13)

Private Press.- Dreyfus (John) A History of the Nonesuch Press...A Descriptive Catalogue, one of 950 copies, signed presentation copy from the author to Anthony Dowd, 1981 § Mardersteig (Giovanni) The Officina Bodoni: An Account of the Work of a Hand Press 1923-1977, limited edition, Verona, 1980 § Tomkinson (G.S.) A Select Bibliography of the Principal Modern Presses..., limited edition, original cloth-backed boards, uncut, First Edition Club, 1928 § Franklin (Colin) The Private Presses, 1969 § Cave (Roderick) The Private Press, second, enlarged edition, 1983, illustrations, all but the third original cloth or boards, the second with slip-case, the rest dust-jackets; and a small quantity of others on private presses, many catalogues, including a file of Fleece Press prospectuses & ephemera 4to & 8vo (sm.qty)

Chaucer (Geoffrey) The Works, facsimile reprint of the Kelmscott Chaucer of 1896, title, decorations and illustrations after William Morris and Edward Burne-Jones, original decorated tan cloth, gilt, slip-case, Folio Society, 2008 § Shakespeare (William) The Norton Facsimile: The First Folio of Shakespeare, facsimile reprint (second edition), original rexine-backed pictorial cloth, spine gilt, slip-case, New York & London, 1996, folio (2)

NO RESERVE Erotica.- Severin (Mark) L'Escapade de la Statue, edited by Murray Rosen, first edition, number 67 of 75 copies, text in French & English, 4 engravings by Severin, tissue guards, original cloth-backed boards, uncut, Honeysuckle Press, 2002; and another, 8vo (2)

Čapek (Karel) Továrna na absolutno. [The Absolute at Large], first edition, decorative title in blue and black, full-page illustrations by Josef Čapek, the odd spot or light stain, uncut in original decorative wrappers, toned and a little rubbed, upper wrapper with tiny closed tear to inner margin and a few very small chips to foot, upper joint split at foot, slight shelf-lean, still excellent overall, small 4to, Brno, Polygrafie, 1922.⁂ The author's rare first novel, a science fiction "future war" novel (set in 1943). First published in English in 1927.

Darwin (Charles) Postanak Vrsta. [On the Origin of Species], portrait plate and folding genealogical tree, the latter with short tear to fold without loss, light browning, original cloth-backed boards, corners lightly bumped, a few light stains, a little heavier to head of lower cover, 8vo, Belgrade, Prosveta, 1948.⁂ The first Serbo-Croatian edition to be written in Latin alphabet. The work was first published in Serbia in 1878, translated into Cyrillic alphabet.

NO RESERVE Güse (Ernst-Gerhard, editor) Baselitz: Werke 1981-1993, Ostfildern, 1994 § Gohr (Siegfried) Markus Lüpertz, Cologne, 2001 § Förg (Günther) Torso & Fragment: Sculpture, Milan, 2000 § Oehlen (Albert) Trance, Milan, 2019 § Horn (Rebecca) Bodylandscapes: Drawings, Sculptures, Installations 1964-2004, inscribed by the artist on half-title, 2005 § Josephine Meckseper, Paris, 2016 § Armleder (John) Indigenous Wine in Friuli Venezia Giulia, limited edition, original boards (metal upper cover and cork lower) fastened with bolt in corner, a little rubbed, Milan, 2003 § Trockel (Rosemarie) Jedes Tier ist eine Künstlerin, one of 1500 copies, signed and inscribed by the artist on half-title, with additional booklet loose in recess in rear cover, original wrappers, glacine wrapper (frayed), slip-case, Lund, 1993, illustrations, some colour, all but the last two original cloth or boards, the first three with dust-jackets; and c.75 others by or about the same, 4to (3 boxes)

NO RESERVE Newton (Helmut) Sex & Landscapes, original printed wrappers, spine a little faded and worn at foot, Zurich, 2001; Big Nudes, Munich, 1990; Work, Cologne, 2000; White Women, reprint, 2000 § Herb Ritts, Munich, 1999 § Fonssagrives (Fernand) An Eye for Beauty, 2003 § Cerruti (Nico) & Paolo Roversi. Images, limited edition, Gottingen, 1999 § Syz (Suzanne) Art Jewels, New York, 2013 § Chan (Alan) Collecting Inspiration for Design, inscribed by the author, New York, 2012 § Miyake (Issy) Pleats Please, original wrappers, Cologne, 2013, illustrations, many colour, all but the first and last original cloth or boards, all but the fifth with dust-jackets or slip-cases; and c.20 others, fashion, design etc., 4to & 8vo (2 boxes)

Architecture.- Wood (John) The Origin of Building: Or, The Plagiarism of the Heathens Detected, 5 parts in 1 vol., first edition, 25 engraved plates, most folding, some marginal soiling, original boards, rebacked and recornered, boards scuffed, folio, Bath, by S. and F. Farley, 1741.

Koudelka (Josef).- Photography.- Beranová (Libuse) Diskutujeme o morálce dneska, first edition, 13 photographic plates by Koudelka, of which 3 double-page, stamp and ink number to title verso, original white blind-stamped cloth, dust-jacket, some creasing and a few short tears and nicks to edges, oblong 8vo, Prague, Nakladatelstvi Politické Literatury, 1965.⁂ First and only edition of this first work, a scarce photobook by the renowned Czech-French photographer Josef Koudelka (b.1938).

NO RESERVE Cartier-Bresson (Henri ) The Decisive Moment, slip-case (a little marked), Steidl, 2015; Scrap Book: Photographs 1932-1946, boards dust-stained, Paris, 2007 § Kumor (Daniela, editor) Jeanloup Sieff: 40 Years of Photography, jacket stained and faded at top edge, 1996 § Riboud (Marc) Marc Riboud: 50 Years of Photography, first edition, 2004 § Hamilton (Peter) Robert Doisneau, first edition, New York, 1995, original boards, all but the second with dust-jackets, some light creasing to edges; and 23 others, mostly French photography, v.s. (28)

NO RESERVE Harrison (Martin) David Bailey Locations: the 1970s Archive, first edition, 2003 § Ross (Alan, editor) Bill Brandt, 1982 § Beaton (Cecil) The Best of Beaton, jacket frayed at top edge, 1968 § Muir (Robin) A Maverick Eye: The Street Photography of John Deakin, first edition, 2002, photographic illustrations, original boards, dust-jackets, light creasing to edges; and c.35 others, English photographers, v.s. (c.40)

NO RESERVE Newton (Helmut) Sumo [2 copies], tenth anniversary edition, with original perspex book-stand, one preserved in original publisher's cardboard box (a little worn), 2009 § Farova (Anna Josef Sudek: Poet of Prague, a Photographic Life, New York, 1990 § Koudelka (Josef) Gypsies, New York, 1975 § Delpire (Robert) & others. Koudelka, first edition, 2006 § Sander (Gunther) August Sander: Photographer Extraordinary, 1973, photographic illustrations, original boards or cloth, dust-jackets, some light fading or chipping to edges; and 8 others, German, Czech, and other similar photographers, v.s. (10)

Birds.- Latham (John) A General History of Birds, 10 vol. in 5, first edition, list of subscribers, 193 hand-coloured etched plates after Latham, no.39 coming loose at foot and no.163 closed tear (affecting image), off-setting and spotting to varying degrees throughout, contemporary green half morocco, spines gilt, spines sunned, rubbed, g.e., 4to, [Fine Bird Books, p. 87; Nissen IVB 532; Zimmer, p. 376], Winchester, Jacob and Johnson for the author, 1821-24.⁂ A revised and expanded version of Latham's earlier work, General Synopsis of Birds (1781-81) incorporating material from subsequent supplements as well as new plates and text, a project which he undertook at the age of eighty. An Index volume was published a further four years later in 1828, and is not always present.

NO RESERVE Gardening.- [Hale (Thomas)] Eden: or, a Compleat Body of Gardening, first edition, compiled by Sir John Hill, engraved plates, contemporary ownership name to title, damp-staining, offsetting, lacking frontispiece, contemporary calf, upper cover detached, rather worn, [Henrey 776], folio, for T. Osborne, 1757. sold not subject to return.

Maw (George) A Monograph of the Genus Crocus, first edition, 81 hand-coloured lithographed plates, double-page colour map and two double-page tables, hinge cracked, light foxing to half-title, contemporary green morocco with gilt letter title to upper cover, lightly rubbed, g.e., [Nissen BBI, 1316; Stafleu & Cowan 5721], 4to, 1886.⁂ "George Maw (1839-1912) was the industrious author and illustrator of his great 'Monograph of the Genus Crocus' (1886)...His monograph, the result of ten years of inquiry, was the most complete work of its kind that has been published on any genus. The plates of this work are marvels of comprehensive detail and put to shame those of many more skilled draughtsmen. From a botanical point of view this work is a landmark." - Blunt & Stearn, pp.277 & 279.

Britain.- Brayley (Edward Wedlake) & John Britton. The Beauties of England and Wales..., vol.v only (Durham), extra-illustrated with 25 engraved plates and maps, some folding, occassional offsetting, modern half calf, edges lightly rubbed, 1803 § Holwell (John) A Sure Guide to the Practical Surveyor, in Two Parts, first edition, 10 plates only (of 12, one in duplicate), water-staining from pp.177 onwards, modern panelled calf, spine with morocco labels, by W. Godbid for Christopher Hussey, 1678 § [Dibdin (T.F.)] The History of Cheltenham, and Account of its Environs..., frontispiece torn and repaired, additional title bound in, plates, some light even browning, modern half morocco, lightly sunned, Cheltenham, 1803; and 11 others, British topography, v.s. (14).

Africa.- Churchill (Sir Winston Spencer) My African Journey, first edition in book form, half-title, frontispiece, plates, 3 maps with routes in red, publisher's advertisements at end, occasional faint marginal spotting, cracked upper hinge, original pictorial cloth, lightly sunned spine, slight bumping to corners and extremities, [Czech p.37, Hosken p.46], 8vo, 1908.

France.- Young (Arthur) Travels...with a View of ascertaining the Cultivation, Wealth, Resources, and National Prosperity of the Kingdom of France, first edition, 3 folding engraved maps, one hand-coloured, some spotting and creasing, heaviest to maps, "The John Crerar Library" ink stamps to maps, blind-stamp to title, withdrawn ink stamp to verso, later half calf, spine gilt in compartments, red morocco label, new endpapers, Bury St. Edmunds, 1792; Voyages en France... Entrepris plus particulièrement pour s'assurer de l'état de l'Agriculture, des Richesses, des Ressources et de la Prospérité de cette Nation, 3 vol., first French edition, half titles to vol.1&2, 3 folding maps, one hand-coloured, half-titles and title of vol.2 repaired at extremities, vol.3 lacking title and half-title, stamped ownership signature to first text-leaf each vol., some spotting and creasing, heaviest to maps, later boards, some spotting, Paris, 1793; and 3 others, 2 by Young, one by Sir George Head, v.s. (7).

[Savile (Henry)] Rerum Anglicarum Scriptores Post Bedam Praecipui ..., first edition, printers device to title, partial ink ownership inscription in early hand, divisional titles within woodcut architectural borders, woodcut initials and head-pieces, a few pencil notes to margins in later hand, bookplates to front pastedown and endpaper, title and following leaf with paper restoration at inner and fore-edge margins, browning to scattered leaves, contemporary calf, rebacked, small chip to upper cover, otherwise a little rubbed, [STC 21783], G. Bishop, R. Nuberie & R. Barker, 1596 § [Twysden (Roger)] Historiae Anglicanae Scriptores X..., ?1 vol. bound in 2, title in red and black, bookplate to front pastedown, g1 of vol. 1 mis-bound before 2N4 (final leaf) at end of vol. 2, some light spotting, heavier to a few leaves, eighteenth century mottled calf with unidentified ?ducal arms in gilt to covers, early reback, vol. 2 lacking spine labels, joints cracking, extremities rubbed, [Wing H2094], Jacob Flesher & Cornelius Bee, 1652; and another similar 17th century, folio (5)⁂ The second edition (of the first mentioned) was published in Frankfurt in 1601.

Annotated.- [Jerome (Stephen)] The Arraignement of the vvhole creature, at the barre of religion, reason, and experience. Occasioned vpon an inditement preferred by the soule of man against the prodigals vanity and vaine prodigality, edited by Robert Hobson, first edition, A1 with signature mark and ornament only recto and explanation of the additional pictorial title verso, engraved additional pictorial title by Martin Droeshout, woodcut head- and tail-pieces and decorative initials, contemporary ink marginalia throughout, A1-H3 lower corners frayed or trimmed, lessening in extent as proceeds, A1 loss of text to explanation verso, additional title with loss to image, letterpress title with loss of part of imprint, A3&4 affecting small part of text, elsewhere mostly affecting catchwords or the odd annotation, 2H4 piece torn from lower blank corner, some water-staining (mostly at start), spotting, or staining, lightly browned, endpapers soiled, contemporary limp vellum, contemporary ink notes to lower cover, lacking ties, soiled, [STC 13538.5], small 4to, Printed by B. Alsop and Tho: Favvcet, 1631 [?i.e. 1632].⁂ A damaged copy lifted by the evidence of early scholarship. Provenance: James Rudyerd (contemporary ink signature at head of B1).

William Lilly, astrologer.- Gataker (Thomas) A Discours Apologetical; wherein Lilies lewd and lowd Lies in his Merlin or Pasqil for the Yeer 1654 are cleerly laid open, first edition, bookplates of Edward Hailstone and Fox Pointe Manor Library, some soiling and foxing particularly at beginning and in some margins, modern calf-backed marbled boards preserving much of older spine, [Wing G319; Gardner 485], 4to, Printed by R. Ibbitson for Thomas Newberry, 1654.⁂ This attack on the astrologer William Lilly was the author's last work published during his lifetime. Gataker (1574-1654) was a puritan divine and critic who had several editions of classical authors, sermons and Biblical commentaries published.

NO RESERVE [North (Dudley, 3rd Baron)] A forest promiscuous of several seasons productions, second edition, first f. blank, lacking L2 (supplied in typescript), 4 preliminary ff. misbound between pp.330 and 331, little loss to inner gutter of title and B1, 3B3 small burn hole within text with loss of a few letters, occasional spotting or staining, lightly browned, contemporary calf, rebacked, corners repaired, covers rubbed and scuffed, [Wing N1284], small folio, Printed by Daniel Pakeman, 1659.⁂ Rare at auction, with the last copy we can trace being in 1984. This collection of prose and verse first appeared in 1645 as A forest of varieties. Provenance: Joseph Knight (portrait bookplate to front pastedown).

NO RESERVE Gray (Thomas) Designs by Mr. Bentley for Six Poems, first edition, first issue with "Drawings, &c." on half-title, printed on rectos only, engraved title-vignette, 6 plates, head- & tail-pieces and initials by Grignion and Muller after Bentley, 4pp. 'Explanation of the Prints' by Horace Walpole bound at end, 19th century ink ownership inscription of G.H. Gilchrist to title head, pencil note in the same hand to front endpaper "this copy belonged to Lord Kirkwall", occasional very faint damp-staining or minor dust-soiling, but overall a very good clean copy, hinges repaired with cloth, contemporary panelled calf, sympathetically rebacked and with corners repaired, some wear to old covers, housed in a cloth drop-back box, [Hazen 42; Rothschild 1061], folio, for R. Dodsley, 1753.

Rousseau (Jean Jacques) Emilius; or, An Essay on Education...Translated from the French by Mr. Nugent, 2 vol., first English edition, half-titles, engraved frontispiece and 5 plates, vol. 1 with advertisement leaf at end, contemporary ink ownership name W. Forester to pastedowns, frontispiece verso and vol. 2 half-title, some very light spotting and browning, but overall clean copies, hinges repaired, contemporary sprinkled calf, joints and spine ends neatly repaired, some wear to corners, very lightly rubbed, for J. Nourse and P. Vaillant, 1763; and others, an 8 vol. set of Hume's History of England (1796-97) and the second edition of the Westminster Confession of the Faith (1658), 8vo & 4to (11)

[Burney (Fanny)] Cecilia, or Memoirs of an Heiress, 5 vol., first edition, vol. 5 lacking blank leaf R8 at end, book-label of Mary Brooke, vol. 2 I4 short tear into text without loss, vol. 3 A9 paper flaw to foot affecting a few letters, some light browning and scattered spotting, faint glue residue to pastedowns, hinges repaired, contemporary calf, neatly rebacked, spines with red and green morocco labels, some wear to corners, light rubbing to extremities, still an attractive set, [Rothschild 547], 12mo, for T. Payne and Son....and T. Cadell, 1782.

[Atkinson (John Augustus)] Sixteen Scenes taken from The Miseries of Human Life. By one of the Wretched, first edition, etched title with hand-coloured vignette and 16 finely hand-coloured etched plates by and after J.A. Atkinson, some with aquatint, one folding, spotting and soiling, lightly browned, plate 3 with chip to lower margin, folding plate torn at folds with tape repairs to verso, rear free endpapers torn with loss, lower hinge cracked, later half morocco, sunned, worn, upper cover and front endpaper nearly detached, [Abbey, Life 259], 1807; and 3 others, 19th century and illustrated, including Bunbury's Academy for Grown Horsemen and Annals of Hormanship bound in one, v.s. (4)

Cruikshank (George).- [Combe (William)] The Life of Napoleon, a Hudibrastic Poem in Fifteen Cantos, by Doctor Syntax, first edition, hand-coloured aquatint pictorial title and 29 plates by George Cruikshank, repaired tears to B6 and G7, affecting text but without major loss, a few other small marginal chips or short tears, offsetting, scattered foxing and occasional marginal soiling, some light browning, some plates bound a little tight with imprint disappearing into gutter, hinges neatly repaired, contemporary half calf over marbled boards, sympathetically rebacked, spine with russet morocco label and blind-stamped motif, wear to corners, covers rubbed, [Abbey, Life 356; Cohn 153; Tooley 151], 8vo, T. Tegg, 1815.

NO RESERVE George IV.- History of the Coronation of Punch (The), and the Humours of his Wife Judy, first edition, folding hand-coloured etched frontispiece, lightly browned, a few spots or light marks, modern morocco-backed marbled boards, title in gilt to upper cover, 8vo, J. L. Marks, 1821.⁂ A scarce satire on the coronation of King George IV. We can trace only one copy at auction, in 1978.

[Brontë (Charlotte)], "Currer Bell". Shirley. A Tale, 3 vol., first edition, vol.1 with 16pp. publisher's catalogue dated January 1851 at rear, vol. 3 with 3pp. Opinions of the Press at rear, vol. 3 title and following leaf trimmed slightly unevenly at foot, light marginal toning, occasional very light spotting or soiling, vol. 1 with small marginal chip to p.5 of catalogue, vol. 2 rear pastedown renewed, hinges neatly repaired, original cloth, sympathetically rebacked, remains of original backstrips laid down (some loss to lettering), toning to varying degrees, light rubbing and marking, some wear to corners, [Smith 5 pp.112-117], 8vo, 1849.⁂ More commonly found with the publisher's catalogue dated October 1849, although Smith cites the Tinker Copy at Yale University as having the January 1851 catalogue found here.

NO RESERVE Nicholls (J. & G.) The Life of Jesus for Young People, illustrations, ownership inscriptions, modern black calf, gilt, rubbed, 1868 § Dawkins (Richard) The God Delusion, first edition, 2006 § Shaw (Bernard) and others. Fabian Essays in Socialism, bookplate and ownership inscription of Ralph Harvey to endpapers, original cloth, spine sunned, the Fabian Society, 1931; and c.55 others, religion and philosophy etc., v.s. (c.60)